Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things in short whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you however innocent it may be in itself.
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He passed a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility And he owned with a grin That his favourite sin Is pride that apes humility.
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'You are old, Father William,' the young man cried, 'The few locks which are left you are gray You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man, Now tell me the reason I pray.'
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Thou hast been called, O sleep the friend of woe But 't is the happy that have called thee so.
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